The Texas UIL One Act Play world presents new obstacles and challenges each company to persevere in foreign performance spaces while under intense time limits. Each competition is made up of a day with a one-hour contest rehearsal in the performance venue and then the play performances from each school on the following day. On contest days, I would coordinate with the contest managers and was in charge of making sure our company members were updated on the individual details for each competition, as they were all run slightly differently. 

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In our performance time slot, each competing school is given 7 minutes to set, 40 minutes to run their show, and 7 minutes to strike their set. If any production goes over the time limits, they're immediately disqualified. My job as Competition Stage Manager was to be vigilant about those times and ensure that we did not go over our set/strike times or performance time. I kept time sheets (shown below) where I documented our times at different lines said within the run of show in order to gauge if that performance was going to run under or over those 40 minutes. If we were lagging behind the time we needed to be at in order to keep the performance under 40 minutes, I would alert the actors to pick up the tempo and communicate the possible need for an early shutdown of our show to each member of the technical team, all while continuing to call cues and communicate with the contest managers.